South Pasadena’s City Council has been considering its options for the Rialto Theatre, a national landmark that has been shuttered since March 2010 because of fire code deficiencies.

The ornate and once stately structure, built by theater impresario C.L. Langley in 1925, was owned by the Jebbia family and placed in patriarch Dominic Jebbia’s trust in 1950. Currently, Wells Fargo Private Bank manages the trust, but Landmark Theatres has a contract to lease the property until 2024.

A staff report shared with the council on Aug. 14 noted that “the property owner is unresponsive to requests to maintain the structure in good repair” and laid out possible plans of action for what City Manager Sergio Gonzalez called South Pasadena’s most prized of its 53 local landmarks, which also sits on the National Register of Historic Places.